Mohave County miner., 1887-04-09
SAN FRANCISCO'S JAPS.
QUITE A COLONY or THEM THAT v
RAPIDLY GROWING LARGER.

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a bright Youns Lady Studying Law.
Obtaining an English EducstioD-At-
tendanss AZ the Mission scheois-I8s-
Jigious Ideas-Isecoming Citizens.
The frst japanese TO settle In sen Fran
cisco were eleven persons, who arrived begs
| from the Sandwich Islands In 1870. Their
numbers were added 10 very slowly unt1
| 1850, when Il Is estimated tBcre were 100
located in this city. A great many Of thoss
arriving here register at the Office Of Saburo
| Fiyii, the Japanes, consul, and according 70
| the statistics furnished by that gentleman 3D
had registered there up TO the close Of the
| year 1884 and 557 up 20 tho close OF the Lac
year. According 10 Miyams, one Of the bsse
known and one Of the longest resident Japan
| ere here, there are at present little over 800
of his counrymen residing in this city and
vicinity. OF these, upward Of forty are we-
! men, about twenty OF whom are married.
| One married couple keep q laundry In thiD
city and another couple conduct restaurants
| I'm Oakland. The daughters Of both coaplD
| attend the public schools In this city.
GOOD sTUDESrs.
Two Of the married women are being sdu-
= u. ID at tho University OF the Pacific at 6an
Jo ~, while ono bright young lady, Mis Bono,
Il M'dying law as the same institution, anA
vhe,,r she graduates contemplates returning
10 ia. VI. and passing her examination - b
admit, ed to ths bar, TO which women ars
eonaI,v eligible with men Some of ths
women sn, employed as house servants b
fam,l,cs la re their husbands are e1npioys1
az buffers " gardeners, etc, and seven Of ID
number are CO ur-esans. There are, perhaps,
q. s.. b,,ofx fs. u~fH
way in this ~, but they admit themseives
that they 10 VOC make O success of it, and,
after running bis liicss two or three years,
generally fail
The majority of the japanese who have ar
rived here lately q. e Ia tween 10 and 20 yeay
Of age, and they nre' ne sfiy all the sons ox
people Of the middle .las small faerchanss,
farmers, storekeepers, etc, owing 10 tne
compulsory educational law that Is in vogue
In Japan, all Of them are b. a certain extent
educated before they leave bo ne. and their
principal object la corniIyg hen Is TO obtain
an English education and study tho manners
as,d customs OF the white .Seoples so that on
returning TO their native lana they VIII stand
a better chance Of obtaining rem lucrative
employment. Another reason wiiAh brings
nur1ber here probably is that In fbeir own
country they are subject TO mil Safy dnfy,
which interferes with their stud 'es ana ID
very distastefuI 10 them.
On arriving here the first object q the
young Japanese Is 10 get employment TO keep
himself while he Is pursuing his stu vos.
Very few OF them have been used TO any ki. 70
OF work at home, and they often engage ~
house servants, without other compensation
than room and board ct first, with the privi~
lego Of attending school during the day or in
the evening. After year or 20 they usually
receive from e1.j0 10 Sc week
IN TIE scHooLs.
About $50 OF them are attending tho mis-
sion schools out Of working hours, whiIc about
forty nre regular attendants nc the -psillu
schools here and IN Oakland Quite a rsuus-
Der attend the ewn,ing public schools, whiIs
others attend private schools after their days
work IL done. There are over a dozen en-
rolled In the Lincoln grammar school. ave IN
the high school, three I'm the Oakland HIN
school, three In the Hopkins academy and
three In the state university. Al least two
thirds OF these work morning and evening.
before and after school hours, while ths
others are sons OF wcalthier parents, who arc
able to provide for them while being edu.
Gated One of the pupils at the Lincoln
school Is graduate Of Toxic university,
while several OF those at the mission school
are sons of nobieraen.
A number OF those here are professed Chris.
tians, but the majority of them are what thu
consul calls sskepticsr-that Is, athcists--
though some cling u the religion Of
Buddhism, which promises rest in heaven
nfter many transformations, births and re-
peated mi5eries OF life and death. Here tbsy
have no temples and no priests. When asksd
as TO their opinion OF q place Of future pun
shfnent they anwcr with an old japanese
proverb: "Jigolm no sata mo, Kane shidai.s
Dr. "the tortures tf he'll are graded according
10 the amount OF money one has.n
When asked by reporter why there wero
not more japanese women here one of ths,
men said; ''Tho lees women the better; .
Toman's tongue three inches long can XIII
nan six feet high"
While theJapanese can be naturalised and
,ecome citizens, 30 far only two have ayailsd
themselves OF tho privilege. There are soms
mansions In this city and In Oakland whsrU
he whole force OF servants, including butjsr.
gardener, house servants, ETC., are JapanHsp.
rncy are docile, intelligent and polite. Maay
'eclare their intention OF becoming citjaene
y soon as qualified. They are arriving In
numbers on every incoming
teamer from tho Orient, and at no fardisess1
late may be destined to become q powcr U
lay part ir local politics. San Fran.
isco Chronicle.